Colorado National Recreation Trails

There are 28 federally-designated national recreation trails in Colorado. Read our federal lands blog. View all federal lands.

National Recreation Trails in Colorado

Currently, there are over thirty federally-designated national recreation trails in Colorado, however more are declared each year in the U.S. Two of them reside within the Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR. They were all declared NRT’s because of their outstanding quality.

Alamosa South Bluff Alamosa	Apex Golden	Barr Manitou Springs
Bear Creek Ouray	Big Dry Creek Westminster	Calico Dolores
Clear Creek Wheat Ridge	Crag Crest Cedaredge	Devils Head Sedalia
Fish Creek Falls Steamboat Springs	Grays Peak Silver Plume	Greyrock Mountain Laporte
Highline Canal Denver	Highline Loop Durango	Lake Fork South Fork
Mineral Belt Leadville	Monte Vista Walking Monte Vista	Mount Evans Idaho Springs
Mount McConnnel Laporte	Petroglyph Point Cortez	Platte River Greenway Denver
Poudre River Greeley	Rio Grande Nature Alamosa	Rocky Mountain Arsenal Denver
Round Mountain Loveland	Sand Creek Regional Greenway Denver	Swamp Park Steamboat Springs
Two Elk Vail	Two Ponds Arvada	Vail Pass Copper Mountain
West Lost Trail Creek Creede	Wheeler Tenmile Frisco